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From someecards.com, for “when you care enough to hit send”:

JK Rowling’s Harvard Commencement Speech

The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination:

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a [...]

Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein on Liz Phair

But when you said that I wasn’t worth talking to, I had to take your word on that. — ‘Divorce Song’, Liz Phair
Carrie Brownstein comments on the 15th anniversary reissue of Exile in Guyville:

In 1993 I moved to Olympia, Washington to attend college. The Northwest was full of incendiary bands in the early 1990s. Some [...]